The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-09-29

A TORNADO visited the country adjacent
- brownsville, Tex. on the I'D. The dam
age was estimated At 81, ,OOOOOO AT Browns
vile seventh ,borses wctc blo"n down, at
MdtHmoras, Mex, about 201 houses were
destroyed.
POLICEMEN found gas pipe bomb at the
Cottage Grove Avenue car barn, Chicago,
the other morning. II was ten inches in
length and two inches in diameter
A MINED train struck two cows near AL
toona, Pa, the other day and the engine
and three cars were derailed. The engineer
was killed and the fireman badly hurt.
IT is reported that over 100 livos have
been lost in Egypt by the floods in the Nile
basin.
CAPTAIN JONI FREER, of the schooner
Marsh, who assisted Boodler McGarigle to
escape to Canada, has been arrested in Chi
cagO.
ENGINEER FREEMAN, Of ID. s. Ervins
stone quarry at yellow Springs, o., was
blown into the AIR fifty feet and killed by
boiler explosion the other day.
CHINESE residents Of San Francisco had
a remarkable parade on the 23d in honor Of
the great idol known as Tan Wong, recent
ly brought from China. One of the features
of the parade, besides Tan Wong, was a
huge dragon 11j feet long. 's:r
GRAvENHURsT, Ont, was almost totally
destroyed by fire on the 22i and 23d. The
loss reached $j00,000.
COMMISSIONER MILLER, of the internal
revenue, says it is his intention to have the
beer OF all the leading brcweries in the
country analyzed by competent chemists,
and gives "a his reason therefor the many
complaints made in the prcss and to him
sol IA on I'M Et hp nf hnnrS
market.
Tue steamship Alesa, which arrived off
New York on the 22d from Marseilles and
Naples with six hundred passengers, had
Asiatic cholera aboard. Eight OF her pas
sengers died on the passage and on her ar
riy al at quarantine, the health officer found
four cases aboard, He sent the Alcsia and
her passengers to the west bank in the
lower bay
FIRE broke out in a bakery in Sanford,
Fla, the other day and destroyed almost
the entire business portion Of the town.
The loss was estimated at 500, 900, with lit
tie insurance.
THE schooner Orkney Lass was thought
to have been lost IN Lake Michigan. Some
few days ago the captain refused assist
ance to reach port and the vessel was not
afterward seen.
BUSINESS failures during the seven days
ended September % numbcred for the Uni
ted States, 1856; Canada, 81; total, 1873; com
pared with 1S7 the previous week and lS7
the corresponding week last year.
FISH d CoNNELL's Enterprise barb wire
factory, Joliet. Ill, has been destroyed by
fire with al it's contents. Loss, s35, 900.
ELISHA A. RoBINsoN, the Chicago whole
sale grocer who stood in with the Cook
County boodlers, has returned to the
county $l5 900 as his share of the steals.
JOLIET merchants deny the stories from
New Haven, Conn, regarding iron mer-
chant Wheelers bogus house in their city.
They say that Whceler's agents in Joliet
were q well-known firm which was dragged
down by him.
JOHN KERNAuAN was hanged in San
Francisco at neon on the 23d for the mur-
der of his sister-in-law in October, 1885.
WILLIAM c. ALDERTsON, a Chicago bucket
shop owner, has applied for writ Of man
damus to force the Board of Trade Of that
city to give him their quotations.
THE freight conductors and brakeman of
the Memphis 4 Charleston road struck re.
ccntly at Chattanooga Tenn, because of a
reduction of the train crews and the re-
fusal of the company to advance wages.
fALENShI, INC uclauItIhS poStd4 ClcTh,
has been sentenced at Vienna, Austria, to
eight years hard labor.
THE bo1y of James Wilbert, who mur'
dered his wife few days ago, was found
in the river near Raleigh, n c.
WILLIAM SHOWERS. the old man arrested
several weeks ago al Lebanon Pa, charged
with having murdered his two young
grandchildren, has made a confession OF
the crime and implicate his hOusekceper,
Elizabeth SerEentwhO, he says, held light
| in the children's bedroom while he COM
mitted the deed.